{"id":275961,"date":"2022-09-14T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T17:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=275961"},"modified":"2022-09-13T20:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T01:07:45","slug":"pro-abortion-medical-students-roe-cant-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-medical-students-roe-cant-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion med students say the end of Roe means they can’t practice medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With Roe v. Wade<\/em> finally dead, pro-abortion groups are attempting to paint pro-life laws meant to protect innocent human lives from violent deaths as unsympathetic and discriminatory towards women. Now, Medical Students for Choice is endeavoring to garner undeserved sympathy by lamenting that there will be reduced access to induced abortion procedure training \u2014 and claiming that this means they have to rethink their potential careers in medicine.<\/p>\n

Despite their claims, most OB\/GYNs don’t participate<\/a> in active, intentional killing \u2014 otherwise known as abortion.<\/p>\n

In a one-sided piece for The Nation<\/a>, writer Sofia Andrade failed to speak to a single pro-life medical student or doctor and instead focused on medical students who seem to believe that killing human beings who live inside their mothers’ wombs is somehow part of healing women. She even argues that without Roe v. Wade<\/em> in place “countless aspiring physicians across the country [are being] forced to rethink their future.”<\/p>\n

Abortion is never medically necessary<\/h3>\n

Killing is not healing; medicine will thrive without<\/em> induced abortion as a bandaid to real health problems.<\/p>\n

Killing isn’t the solution<\/a> when a woman’s health or life is at risk, and the treatments for truly life-threatening situations for pregnant women aren’t induced abortions<\/a>. Surgery for ectopic pregnancies is not an abortion. Cancer treatments are not an abortion. Preterm delivery and emergency C-sections are not abortions. Miscarriage treatment is not an abortion.<\/p>\n

The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) recently launched<\/a> a national campaign to debunk<\/a> the common various claims about induced abortion as ‘health care’. The group’s memo regarding the initiative states that\u00a0\u201celective abortion is not lifesaving medical care,\u201d and that \u201cno laws on elective abortion will impact\u201d the ability of OB\/GYNs to provide \u201clifesaving medical care to pregnant women<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

AAPLOG notes that 93% of practicing OB\/GYNs<\/em><\/strong> “do not perform\u00a0elective abortions but have always been able to offer life-saving treatment” regardless of any state pro-life laws, and that OB\/GYNs are “trained to discern when they need to intervene to save a mother\u2019s life.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Pro-abortion medical students launch dishonest attack on pregnancy resource centers<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If 93% of OB\/GYNs are not actively committing abortions, then clearly the claim by Medical Students for Choice and Andrade \u2014 that pro-abortion medical students have to “rethink” their careers following the overturning of Roe<\/em> \u2014 is little more than propagandized rhetoric that is not based in fact.<\/p>\n

Perhaps without the free availability of legalized induced abortion as the “solution” to every possible medical challenge, doctors will stop telling women they must kill their babies in order to save themselves; instead, actual<\/em> health care that treats both mother and child as human beings would be a welcome change.<\/p>\n

The people who ‘need abortion the most’<\/h3>\n

According to Andrade, the field of medicine without abortion or abortion training is bleak for patients too, especially for people in areas lacking high-quality medical care \u2014 in other words, less wealthy communities. Rather than write about how these communities need access to quality medical care, Andrade argues that they need the legal right to kill their preborn children. It’s an age-old pro-abortion argument that’s a more subtle way of saying they poor people shouldn’t have babies.<\/p>\n

“[T]he gutting of national abortion rights with\u00a0Dobbs<\/em>\u00a0has left other [medical] students concerned about their access to robust abortion training and their ability to act as good physicians in the places that need it most,” wrote Andrade.<\/p>\n

Which are the places that, in her opinion, “need” abortion the most? According to the following quote Andrade shared from Medical Students for Choice Executive Director Pamela Meritt, it’s people in the “South, the Deep South, or the Midwest.”<\/p>\n